AMSTERDAM (Business Wire) -- GE's Digital Energy business (NYSE:GE) today announced it has achieved
Oracle Exadata Optimized status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN),
demonstrating that its Smart Metering Operations Suite (SMOS) version
4.0.1 has been tested and tuned on Oracle Exadata Database Machine to
deliver speed, scalability and reliability to customers. Oracle Exadata
provides a database of massive flash memory to store crucial metering
information for smart metering operations. Together with this hardware,
GE's SMOS provides a complete meter and transaction management system
capable of housing and analyzing raw usage data. GE is a Gold level
member of OPN.

GE's SMOS provides a set of software tools to manage and operate a
utility's smart meter estate. Offering customers a completely scalable
solution, GE's SMOS solution is designed to deliver the functionality
required to communicate with, operate and manage a utility's smart meter
network, making it an integral part of a grid management solution. In
addition, GE's SMOS software solution is future flexible, allowing for
easy updates and upgrades. It provides back-office integration functions
that can deliver data from across the network to operational core
systems such as outage management systems and other applications. SMOS
is part of GE's comprehensive advanced metering infrastructure solution,
which includes smart meters, communication solutions and software
applications.

Running on Oracle Exadata, GE's SMOS can process data from 100 million
smart meters in less than 100 minutes1. SMOS is based on
Oracle Database and utilizes many of the advanced features of Oracle
Exadata to deliver a robust and resilient operational solution. GE's
SMOS running on Oracle Exadata offers functionality, scalability,
performance, extensibility and is a core part of the company's advanced
metering infrastructure offering.

“Oracle Exastack Optimized recognizes partners who have optimized their
solutions on a complete, integrated and cloud-ready infrastructure in
order to help them accelerate innovation, unlock new features and
functionality and deliver superior value to users,” said Chris Baker,
senior vice president, Worldwide ISV, OEM and Java Sales, Oracle. “By
achieving Oracle Exadata Optimized status, GE has demonstrated its Smart
Metering Operations Suite is tested and tuned to work with Oracle
Exadata Database Machine to help deliver optimum performance,
scalability and reliability to their customers.”

Oracle Exadata Optimized is part of the Oracle Exastack Optimized
program, which allows partners, such as GE, to utilize OPN enablement
resources and dedicated lab environments to help develop, test and tune
their applications on Oracle Exadata.

By achieving Oracle Exadata Optimized status, Oracle recognizes GE's
Digital Energy business for developing, testing and tuning its Smart
Metering Operations Suite on the Oracle Exadata. Together, Oracle
Exadata and GE's SMOS can provide customers with advanced data
management capabilities, near linear scalability and high availability—a
strong combination that can help lower the total cost of ownership.
Achieving Oracle Exadata Optimized status is a testament to GE's ability
to deliver the extreme performance and reliability customers require.

“When running on Oracle Exadata Database Machine, SMOS, GE's latest
software product for mission-critical applications, demonstrated massive
scalability and secure high-performance data processing,” said Mike
Carlson, general manager—software solutions, GE's Digital Energy
business. “It was able to process more than 3.4 billion data items per
hour. The ability to process that much data in such a short period of
time demonstrates that our advanced application software is ready to
meet the challenges brought to light in the ever-evolving world of big
data and the Industrial Internet. Operating on Oracle Exadata Database
Machine, our SMOS software can provide an incrementally scalable
solution that can reduce total cost of ownership and can support up to
100 million smart meters1.”

About GE

GE (NYSE:GE) works on things that matter. The best people and the best
technologies taking on the toughest challenges. Finding solutions in
energy, health and home, transportation and finance. Building, powering,
moving and curing the world. Not just imagining. Doing. GE works. For
more information, visit the company's website at www.ge.com.

Follow GE Energy Management and its Digital Energy business on Twitter @GE_EnergyMgmt
and @YourSmartGrid.

About the Oracle Exastack Program

The Oracle Exastack program helps enable Independent Software Vendors
(ISVs) and other members of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) to rapidly build
and deliver faster, more reliable applications. Leveraging the Oracle
Exastack program, qualifying OPN members have access to
Oracle performance experts and dedicated labs for testing and tuning
their applications on Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic
Elastic Cloud and Oracle SuperCluster. Customers can be confident when
selecting Oracle Exastack Optimized applications that they have been
tested and tuned to achieve optimal performance, scalability and
reliability. Also part of the program, Oracle Exastack Ready is
dedicated to helping ISVs run their solutions on the latest major
release of Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic
Cloud and their component products, including Oracle Database, Oracle
WebLogic Server, Oracle Solaris, Oracle SuperCluster, Oracle Linux and
Oracle VM. These products provide partners with a lower cost and high
performance infrastructure for database and application workloads across
on-premise and cloud based environments. To find out more, visit http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/exastack.

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of
Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better
develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers
resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products
and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product
portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest
enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through
Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency
development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out
more, visit http://www.oracle.com/partners.

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